NewsRoom Digest: Top NZ News Items for September 24, 2015

This edition of NewsRoom_Digest features 12 resourceful links of the day and the politics pulse from Thursday 24th September.

NEWSROOM_MONITOR

Top stories in the current news cycle include the bill adding the Red Peak to the flag referendum options has passed its final reading in Parliament, Fonterra announcing an annual net profit of $506million compared to $179million last year, Government outlining plans for a major overhaul of Child, Youth and Family (CYF), which will involve much better tracking of children in state care and more contracting out to other organisations.

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POLITICS PULSE

Media releases issued from Parliament by political parties today included:

DEFENCE PIF: The Chief of Defence Force, Lieutenant General (LTGEN) Tim Keating, has welcomed a Performance Improvement Framework (PIF) review released today by the State Services Commission. The review can be found at:http://www.ssc.govt.nz/pif

Selwyn Manning, BCS (Hons.) MCS (Hons.) is an investigative political journalist with 23 years media experience. He specializes in reportage and analysis of socioeconomics, politics, foreign affairs, and security/intelligence issues.
Selwyn has extensive experience as a commentator and has provided live political analysis to a wide range of television and radio organizations broadcasting in New Zealand, Australia and globally including the BBC (Five Live, London) and BBC (World Service). He is currently a correspondent to Australia's FiveAA radio, and is a regular live-on-air panelist on Radio New Zealand's The Panel with broadcaster Jim Mora.